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Similarly to naming Qingdao both the Switzerland and Riviera of China Suzhou is named the Venice of China. I think Suzhou deserves it's title a little more than Qingdao though. It's well pretty and has all sorts of fancy gardens you can visit, my favourite being 'The most Humble Administrator's Garden.' I took most of my photos in there. It even has a few canals to justify it's comparison to Venice. ...

... br> The demonstration took us from moth to egg, to caterpiller to cocoon, to soaking the cocoon, unraveling the cocoon to a series of looms that lead to a bolt of cloth. If the cocoons are not harvested at exactly the right time, the pupa begins to eat its way out and the cocoon is ruined for use as silk. To put this all in perspective, it takes thousands of cocoons to make a single scarf. Don't ask how many for a king-sized bedspread!

Luke Reddington was talking to the other students from Writhlington: Louis Paddon, Issac Soccorsy; Chloe Simms; Lydia Simmons, Adam Benney and Otta Brown. He looked up and saw me and his mouth opened in surprise as Rachel hadn't told them I would be there!

I went to Shantang Street with them in the evening. It was so lovely to spend time with the students and with Rachel. ...

Day 8|Thursday Today we took part in the school athletics. There were not many events compared to our school sports. These were throw the ball, relay, tyre rolling and 4 legged race. They were all lots of fun. At school lots of kids wanted a photo with us or signature. Even a hug and they would run off ...